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Embrace the rejects, hope you've got the patience!

Advantages: Has a certain appeal, doesn't shy away
Disadvantages: Some dodgy camera work, acting and FX

...guru/buff/cult director Rob Zombie saw the success of his debut feature length film House of 1,000 Corpses, he must have thought 'Sequel, here we come!' straight away. Definitely not for everyone, and criticised by many, it was also hailed as a hit by many due to the gruesome nature and the almost B-movie style of directing it adopted. Enter this sequel, dragging with it a number of the characters from the first film, and keeping up the trends with ...
...film, although some of the more basic plot lines in this film could 'spoil' the first, if such a thing was feasible. It sort of has two parts to it, kicking off with five unsuspecting members of a touring music group holed up in a motel room, who are held captive in the room by a pair of sadistic siblings, Otis and Baby Firefly, fresh from the first film. What strikes straight away is the sheer lack of care factor for human feelings or physical ...

pmcds 17.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Devil's Rejects (DVD)

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One of the best films of the director !

Advantages: rare classic
Disadvantages: it's scary!!!

As i mentioned on the title this movie count as one of the best movies of the director like; The Thing, Halloween İf you are areal horror fan you must hve this movie for your archive. When we come to the story part of the movie it satified me cause iit has a rare story compare to the other horror movies.Jamie Lee Curtis again outstanding in this movie as she become horror QUEEN with Halloween series.When we look at the special effect s part ...

srsenman 31.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Fog (DVD)

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Blood red and violent as hell

Advantages: Gory, troubling, difficult, acomplished
Disadvantages: If you don't like horror this ain't the film for you...

...is a light leap from the original. The first film was filled with MTV style jump cuts, a punishing and at times banal sound track and repeated shocks. Towards the end of the film it did manage a truly strange atmosphere and was something slightly different, but overall has to been seen as a failure. All this changes with The Devil's Rejects. Based on the exploits of a twisted and violent family the film throws away much of the story from the original ...
...Basically cut in two halves, the film spends the first part establishing how violent and unpleasant the family are - and does it with a blood drenched sequence of vignettes that leave everyone cold. When I watched the film in the cinema I'd never seen so many people leave. For perhaps the first time since the seventies we see a real sense of sexual violence on the screen and it's very hard to watch. By the time the family make it to their supposed ...

jarowdowsky 29.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Devil's Rejects (Special Edition) (DVD)

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Dank

Advantages: A feisty leading lady
Disadvantages: Nonsensical plotting, dreary directiion and dodgy effects

...Not only does she resemble the missing girl, but she claims to know where she is and that she has come back from the dead to replace her. "Ginger Snaps" director John Fawcett seems to have lost his grip on all things scary. "The Dark" is a ramshackle film cobbled together from bits and pieces of far better horror films and nonsensical ideas that don't hang together convincingly. Fawcett doesn't have a strong directorial style. His attempts at making ...
...don't serve any purpose at the beginning of the film because you haven't been introduced to any of the characters or locations. So they have no context. Later in the movie, they reveal too much and therefore undermine any scares. The editing throughout is choppy and this leads to a disjointed feeling that hinders the audience's comprehension. There are too many film school tricks in use for the director's shooting style to feel fresh or original. ...

afy9mab 13.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Dark (DVD)

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Creepy as Hell

Advantages: Superb musical score, hugely atmospheric, powerfully unsettling, simple but effective plot
Disadvantages: None

...of tension and suspense. In the hands of a lesser director, The Fog would have been just another generic horror film, (see the execrable 2005 remake if you don't believe me) but Carpenter instead manages to create an oppressive and unsettling film with his mix of eerily-lit shots, brooding off-screen menace and his trademark pulsing synths that ebb and flow throughout, gradually building up anxiety in the viewer on an almost subconscious level. The ...
...beacon and driving it onto the rocks, causing crew to drown before plundering the ship of gold and using it to establish the town. The local church houses a huge gold crucifix fashioned from the supposedly ill-gotten gold, and its curator, Father Malone, is a descendent to the head conspirator and town founder. On the hundredth anniversary of the shipwrecking a strange luminous fog begins to envelop the town, and strange figures with glowing eyes ...

Burning_Darkness 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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